BeginningTeachersNetwork - Self Evaluation

Self evaluation of the Beginning Teachers Network

	Purposes and functionalities of the site	Components within the site	Web Design skills required
IDENTITY	Site is clearly identifiable as relating to Beginning Teachers	Opening statement and information throughout	Develop statement and embed text
	Beginning Teachers Network identifiable by specific logo	Logo on opening page (banner and central logo)	Design logo, use Photoshop and Illustrator to create images, embed logo
	Purpose for the site is clearly explained	Opening statement and information within the AR Project information pages	Develop statement, embed text
PURPOSE	Site clearly links to Action Research question	Links to AR Project, questions, summary, findings and progress	Create table, embed text
	Offer a resource for beginning teachers to explore Professional Development opportunities and learn about specific issues relating to beginning teachers	Resources page, discussion forum, AR Project information pages	Research appropriate sites for links, embed texts and links
	Provide beginning teachers with information about other teachers' experiences in their beginning years	Beginning Teacher Survey results, discussion forums	Create survey using GoogleDocs, create spreadsheet results using GoogleDocs, embed survey and spreadsheet
	Provide beginning teachers with a place to connect with other beginning teachers	Discussion forums	Create discussion forum
	Gather information from beginning teachers about their experiences in their first years of teaching	Discussion forums, resources page	Create discussion forum and embed resources text
	Develop a tool to offer feedback on the development of the site	Feedback survey, discussion forum	Create survey using GoogleDocs, embed survey
APPEAL	Common colour theme used throughout	Text, images, banners and logos	Create buttons and logos using Photoshop, embed images
	Common font used in the body of text, logos and buttons	Text and tables	Choose appropriate font and edit text throughout
	Visual nature of the opening page to lead to textual information	Buttons, logo, banner and text	Create buttons and logos using Photoshop
	A range of different forms of interactivity	Forums, surveys, discussions and feedback	Create surveys using GoogleDocs and embed
ORGANISATION	Pages titled clearly, organised sequentally	Buttons and title pages	Develop theme for buttons and logos, organise into web-style navigation map
	Large buttons used for links	Buttons	Develop theme for buttons
	Alphabetically organised navigation table	Navigation table and title pages	Create page names
	Links from 'Home' page and navigation table	Buttons and links	Develop themes for buttons
INFORMATION	Information specific to the AR Project	AR Project findings, proposal and readings	Embed AR Project information
	General information about Beginning Teachers	Resources page	Create table of resources
	Collaborated information from participants	Discussion groups and survey results	Create discussion groups
	Additional resources provided	Resources page	Create table of resources
LINKS	Links to resources within Australia and internationally	Resources page	Create table of resources
	Links to relevant readings from AR Project	AR Key Reading page	Create links to relevant AR information
INTERACTIVITY	Submit responses to Beginning Teachers Survey	Beginning Teachers survey	Create Beginning Teachers survey, embed
	Offer feedback on site	Feedback survey	Create feedback survey, embed
	Contribute to discussion topics	Discussion forums	Create discussion groups, embed
	Collaborate with other teachers	Discussion forums	Create discussion groups, embed